EUTHANASIA Euthanasia will become non-voluntary:an elderly person in a nursing home, who can barely understand a breakfast menu, is asked to sign a form consenting to be killed. Is this voluntary or involuntary? Will they be protected by the law? How? Right now the overall prohibition on killing stands in the way. Once one signature can sign away a person's life, what can be as strong a protection as the current absolute prohibition on direct killing? The quality of life is priceless. Euthanasia is not always 100% voluntary. Patients are sometimes pressured into thinking their life is not worth living.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Britain's prosecution service says veteran broadcaster Ray Gosling, who claimed in televised documentary to have carried out mercy killing of his dying lover, has been charged with wasting police time after they found no evidence supporting claim August 21, 2010
EUTHANASIA
Euthanasia will become non-voluntary:an elderly person in a nursing home, who can barely understand a breakfast menu, is asked to sign a form consenting to be killed. Is this voluntary or involuntary? Will they be protected by the law? How? Right now the overall prohibition on killing stands in the way. Once one signature can sign away a person's life, what can be as strong a protection as the current absolute prohibition on direct killing?
The quality of life is priceless. Euthanasia is not always 100% voluntary. Patients are sometimes pressured into thinking their life is not worth living.
WORLD BRIEFING | EUROPE; Britain: Charge In 'Mercy Killing'
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSBritain's prosecution service says veteran broadcaster Ray Gosling, who claimed in televised documentary to have carried out mercy killing of his dying lover, has been charged with wasting police time after they found no evidence supporting claim
August 21, 2010